{"id":18446,"date":"2017-06-05T21:17:29","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T03:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=18446"},"modified":"2021-05-20T19:40:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T01:40:51","slug":"18446","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/18446\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Nadler: &#8216;Impeachable offense&#8217; if Trump fired Comey over Russia probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 140%; font-weight: 500;\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3505 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/nadler.jpg\" alt=\"nadler for Trump Impeachment\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" data-wp-pid=\"3505\" \/>WashingtonExaminer<\/b> &#8211; Democratic lawmaker Nadler from New York said Thursday it would be an &#8220;impeachable offense&#8221; if President Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey for refusing to end the investigation into Russia&#8217;s meddling in the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepJerryNadler\">@RepJerryNadler<\/a>: If Trump fired Comey because he didn&#8217;t get loyalty or to subvert Russia probe that&#8217;s impeachable <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DHJZHdkA2l\">https:\/\/t.co\/DHJZHdkA2l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 New Day (@NewDay) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewDay\/status\/870244732965986305\">June 1, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n&#8220;If the president fired Comey because he had asked for loyalty and hadn&#8217;t gotten it, because he had asked him to ease off on the investigation of Flynn, because in effect he was asking him to ease off on the investigation of possible collusion by the Trump campaign with the Russians in subverting the election, that would be obstruction of justice, which is an impeachable offense,&#8221; Rep. Jerry Nadler, said in an interview on CNN.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 140%; font-weight: 500;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/rep-nadler-impeachable-offense-if-trump-fired-comey-over-russia-probe\/article\/2624665\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14021\" src=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Whisper_Impeach_Ad-2.png\" alt=\"How to impeach a president\" width=\"489\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Whisper_Impeach_Ad-2.png 854w, https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Whisper_Impeach_Ad-2-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Whisper_Impeach_Ad-2-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Whisper_Impeach_Ad-2-800x533.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 140%; font-weight: 500;\">Citizen led Trump impeachment method.<br \/>\nRules of the House of Representatives stipulate citizens can initiate it. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WashingtonExaminer &#8211; Democratic lawmaker Nadler from New York said Thursday it would be an &#8220;impeachable offense&#8221; if President Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey for refusing to end the investigation into Russia&#8217;s meddling in the 2016 election. .@RepJerryNadler: If Trump fired Comey because he didn&#8217;t get loyalty or to subvert Russia probe that&#8217;s impeachable&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[76,123,126,106,105,77],"class_list":["post-18446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-impeachment-news","tag-impeach","tag-impeachtrump","tag-potus","tag-resist","tag-theresistance","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rep. 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